The Search for Medieval Music in Africa and Germany, 1891-1961: Scholars, Singers, Missionaries

by Anna Maria Busse Berger

This innovative book reassesses the history of musicology, unearthing the field's twentieth-century German and global roots. In the process, Anna Maria Busse Berger exposes previously unseen historical relationships such as those between the modern rediscovery of medieval music, the rise of communal singing, and the ways in which African music intersected with missionary work in the German colonial period. Ultimately, Busse Berger offers a monumental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022674034X
• ISBN13: 9780226740348
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"